André 小山 Schappo

Taiwan's idn ccTLDs 台湾 and 台灣 are now live. Here are some random finds: Accommodation Management 安信租屋.台灣 Asia University 亞洲大學.台灣 Asia...

Most British Universities are now switched onto Internationalization. I have seen many statements of intent from British Universities. The i...

Taiwan's idn ccTLDs 台湾 and 台灣 were entered into the Root Name Servers on 14th July 2010. This does not though mean that they are now liv...

The China's idn ccTLDs 中国 and 中國 went live on 9th July 2010. Many Chinese Companies have been very quick to adopt these idn ccTLds. Havi...

China's new idn ccTLDs 中国 and 中國 are now live. These ccTLDs are in addition to the ascii cn ccTLD. Here some examples of the now fully i...

British Airways make clever and creative use of language tags and country codes in their web addresses. The last part of their web address i...

The last time I blogged about Google Maps it was about transliterations into Japanese. Since then, Google can also transliterate English nam...

I have just noticed that Google Maps transliterates Loughborough into Chinese as 拉夫伯勒 http://ta.gd/拉夫伯勒地图 。 The transliteration I have been ...

I am totally impressed by: Los Angeles ロサンゼルス.jp New York City ニューヨークシティ.jp Not only do these sites have Japanese IDNs but also the pathn...

I have found several Japanese Companies that have Latin Alphabet acronyms. These acronyms are usually also transliterated into Katakana 片仮名....

Kashi is a recently opened Japanese Yakiniko restaurant in Leicester レスター. I received a leaflet about Kashi this week. The only Kanji on the...

Latin Script acronyms are common place. Much more interesting are acronyms in non latin scripts. Even more interesting is when non latin scr...